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Clemens Wolff commented on BAHIR-117:
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Upgrading priority to "major" as the issue counts as "a small minority of users
are missing important functionality without this". However, it would also be
possible to argue for a higher priority as I'm not aware of a workaround other
than re-implementing a custom TwitterReceiver.
> Expand filtering options for TwitterInputDStream
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> Key: BAHIR-117
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BAHIR-117
> Project: Bahir
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Spark Streaming Connectors
> Reporter: Clemens Wolff
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> Currently, the TwitterInputDStream only supports filtering by keywords [1]
> which corresponds to the "track" option in the Twitter API [2]. The Twitter
> API supports many more ways to receive a filtered stream (e.g. get Tweets in
> a particular location [3]). It would be very useful to expose these
> additional filtering options in this library.
> Proposal: add a new public method to TwitterUtils which follows the same
> interface as createStream [4] but which takes a FilterQuery [5] object as
> argument. In this way, we give full filtering flexibility to our users.
> I'm currently working on Project Fortis, a social data analysis platform for
> the United Nations [6]. The extra filtering options would be very useful for
> my project so I'm happy to implement this and create a pull request.
> [1]
> https://github.com/apache/bahir/blob/fd4c35fc9f7ebb57464d231cf5d66e7bc4096a1b/streaming-twitter/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/twitter/TwitterInputDStream.scala#L44
> [2] https://dev.twitter.com/streaming/overview/request-parameters#track
> [3] https://dev.twitter.com/streaming/overview/request-parameters#locations
> [4]
> https://github.com/apache/bahir/blob/fd4c35fc9f7ebb57464d231cf5d66e7bc4096a1b/streaming-twitter/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/twitter/TwitterUtils.scala#L39
> [5] http://twitter4j.org/javadoc/twitter4j/FilterQuery.html
> [6] https://fortis-web.azurewebsites.net/#/site/ocha/
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